Nguyen Thanh Luan

Nguyen Thanh Luan 🇻🇳 (taru)

Researcher & Lecturer

Specializing in Low-resource Language Processing, Machine Translation, and Large Language Models.

About Me

I am a Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Information Technology (VNU-HCM). My work spans Speech Processing, Multilingual NLP, and Low-resource Language Technologies, with a broader goal of building practical and culturally-grounded AI systems that support communication across underrepresented languages.

Experience

Aug 2024 - Nov 2024

Visiting Scholar

Michigan State University, USA

Collaborating on a project focused on leveraging in-context learning for idiom-aware machine translation.

Oct 2022 - Sep 2023

Laboratory Assistant

HA3CI Laboratory, JAIST, Japan

Engaging in research efforts for a master's project on direct speech-to-speech translation.

Apr 2023 - Present

Lecturer

University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam

Mentoring students, designing curriculum, and supervising research projects on speech translation.

Oct 2021 - Mar 2023

Teaching Assistant

University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam

Assisting in conducting practical classes for undergraduate students.

Education

2021 - 2023

MSc. in Information Science

JAIST, Japan

Thesis: Zero-resourced Speech-to-Speech Translation for Unpaired and Untranscribed Languages Based on Visually Grounded Self-Supervised Speech Models (Grade: 100/100)

2016 - 2021 | Valedictorian

BSc. in Information Technology

VNU-HCM

Thesis: Constructive and Toxic Speech Detection for Open-domain Social Media Comments in Vietnamese (Grade: 9.9/10)

Selected Publications

Honors & Awards

2024

Nominated Visiting Scholar - USAID PHER Program

Funded $10,800

2023

Outstanding Dedications and Contributions in Research

HA3CI Laboratory @ JAIST, Japan

2022

Fully-funded Scholarship for Master Program

JAIST, Japan ($10,000)

2022

Excellent Achievement in Scientific Research

VinIF, Vietnam ($5,000)

2021

Valedictorian in Information Technology

UIT @ VNU-HCM

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer

ACL-SRW'25, Regular ACL ARR (2024, 2025), ICASSP'25

Organizer

VLSP'21 - ViMRC Challenge